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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Jackson, MS

March 2, 2001Marion County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2001, 2:25 PM CST for Marion County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2001, 2:25 PM CST (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2001, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Marion County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 2, 11:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KJAN 022027
TORJAN
MSC091-022100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
225 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 300 PM CST

* AT 225 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO...
  BE NEAR LAMPTON AT 235 PM...OTHERWISE IT WILL AFFECT RURAL EASTERN 
MARION COUNTY.

SEEK SHELTER NOW  GO TO THE CENTER OF A BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS.

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LAT...LON 3109 8979 3118 8965 3142 8966 3136 8978
          3119 8993

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion	51 min
Mar 1, 7:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Marion	49 min
Mar 1, 7:23 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	3 hr
Mar 1, 7:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	33 min
Mar 1, 7:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	40 min
Mar 1, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence, Lincoln	45 min
Mar 1, 8:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	34 min
Mar 1, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	46 min
Mar 1, 9:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	29 min
Mar 1, 10:18 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence	117 min
Mar 2, 1:05 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion	3 hr
Mar 2, 1:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Jefferson	3 hr
Mar 2, 11:00 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson	3 hr
Mar 2, 11:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson	3 hr
Mar 2, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	34 min
Mar 2, 12:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington	25 min
Mar 2, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	51 min
Mar 2, 1:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith	3 hr
Mar 2, 2:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Marion	29 min
Mar 2, 2:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper	41 min
Mar 2, 2:28 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	92 min
Mar 2, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar	56 min
Mar 2, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	25 min
Mar 2, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	57 min
Mar 2, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	50 min
Mar 2, 3:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion	3 hr
Mar 2, 3:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams	4 hr
Mar 2, 4:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln	3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.